A children's book by Ralph Hasenohr, to read aloud from age 4
The story of the green Unifant: a creature as big as a frog, with a trunk, huge ears and exactly one leg. A picture book about a world so beautiful it could be our own.
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Come along with the green Unifant into a wonderful world.
The blue bumblebee - like a small, soft ball of wool. Help her, and she shows you what no one else gets to see.
The cheese trees - in the land in the mountains, cheese grows all year round, and everyone eats from it.
“Why should I take up more space than I really need?”
says the lake that never floods its banks.
The sun is the blossom of a giant plant.
Jacob is about to go to bed when a little blue bumblebee flies against the window of his room. He opens the window and lets her out. That night she comes back and leads him into a land no one knows. There lives the green Unifant: as big as a frog, as green as a frog, with a trunk and huge ears like an elephant - and exactly one leg. It shows Jacob trees where cheese grows, a lake that never floods its banks, and a sun that is really the blossom of a giant plant. It opens again every morning, as long as people take good care of the Earth. A picture book about nature and sustainability that never wags a finger, but tells a story instead.
“I am the green Unifant,” answered the little creature. “I have a trunk so that I can pull up the grass that I eat. My huge ears are for hearing things far away - I can hear when my friend, the blue bumblebee, is flying to me for a visit. I'm green so that no one can find me in the grass. And one leg is enough for me: with one leg, I can travel anywhere.”
“Why should I demand more space than I really need?” answered the lake. “When I flow over the banks, I just make everything wet. That wouldn't be very nice of me.”
After story time, children drew their own green Unifant - with bumblebee, cheese trees, lake and sun flower.
Read aloud from age 4, reading alone from around age 7. The pictures carry the story for younger children too.
About 15 minutes for 42 pages. It works as a bedtime story for one evening.
Because it has exactly one leg, centered under its body: one leg plus elephant makes Unifant. In German it is called Einfant.
No. The glowing green of the meadow cannot be reproduced in standard four-color printing, it would need a fifth ink. That is why the book exists only as an eBook, where the color really glows.
Yes, as Das grüne Einfant, the original edition.
As an eBook for $4.99 on Amazon Kindle and in Apple Books.
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